Remembering James Dean

1955 USA. James DEAN, US actor. 1955. USA. New York. 1955. Jimmy DEAN with a withdrawn timid look, "East of Eden" had just opened in New York at the Astor Theater after a celebrity studded preview. Jimmy neither attended the previews or the opening, "I can't handle that scene" so he boarded a plane to Los Angeles. Image licenced to BriaN McDonald Thirteen/WNET by BriaN McDonald © Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3) - 4600 X 4600 pixels (A3)

FILE ** Actor James Dean is seen during a scene from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic, "Giant." Dean was killed in a car crash when filming was almost completed. David Loehr, the owner of the James Dean Gallery in Gas City Indiana, had first announced in December 2005 that he planned to close the museum, but an outpouring of contributions led him to give it another try. It ultimately shut down at the end of February 2006, though, and Loehr has packed up and placed all of his Dean memorabilia into storage. Dean was 24 and had hit it big with starring roles in "East of Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Giant," which had just wrapped filming, when a station wagon collided with Dean's vehicle near rural Cholame, Calif., on Sept. 30, 1955. He died instantly. (AP Photo)

FILE--This is an undated, unaltered file photo of film icon James Dean. Stenz Construction Co. is exploring the possibility of buying and renovating Dean's former high school. "We're looking to see what makes sense financially,'' Don Buchanan of Stenz Construction Co. said Oct. 22, 2001. (AP Photo/Turner Classic Movies, File)

**FILE** Actor James Dean is seen in a 1955. Hundreds of people crammed into a school auditorium Saturday, May 1, 2004, in New York to view director Martin Scorsese's personal print of ``East of Eden,'' the film that solidified James Dean's status as a Hollywood star. Scorsese showed the film as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.(AP Photo)

ADV. FOR WKD. EDS., SEPT. 20-22--FILE--Actor James Dean is shown here in a 1955 file photo, the year he filmed the movie, "Giant." This weekend, 41 years after Dean died at 24, "Giant," for which he received a posthumous Oscar nomination, is being re-released to a world full of people who may never have seen his movies but undoubtedly know of the actor. (AP Photo/file)

Natalie Wood and James Dean starred in "Rebel Without a Cause." (Original photo ran 03/10/1957)